IE 10 or Firefox?

[Saruman]

IE 10 is a hefty 75.4 MB versus Firefox's 275 KB?

Why such a great vast?

IE 10 is rivaling some of these "newer" browsers out there, how would you rate it amongst the latest version of Firefox?

Is it worth the extra file space?

If a browser can do the same thing as it, and weighs less, why use the heaviest?

 

[froggyboy604]

I like Firefox more because it seems to have more add-ons.

 

[Saruman]

whats thte memory usage on some of the "neccessary" addons?

 

[pandaa]

I'm still a fan of Firefox over IE. I'm thinking about giving IE 10 a try, the latest that I've used is IE 9, and I wasn't really impressed. It's hard for me to give up on Chrome though..

 

[froggyboy604]

whats thte memory usage on some of the "neccessary" addons?

Firefox Memory usage has improved a lot in the newest version which is 23, and does not use as much Memory where it slows down my computer like in older versions where it uses more Memory.

 

[GrabThe.com]

It's all about Chrome...

 

[Yudistira]

Firefox ofc..

 

[Tunechi]

Firefox all day.

There ain't no competitor even close.

 

[Teg]

I am now, have always been, and will always be a Mozilla Firefox user.

 

[froggyboy604]

I also think I would use Mozilla Firefox since Opera's new user interface is too similar to Google Chrome now, and Google Chrome user interface feels like it has fewer features since there is not a bookmark bar, menu bar, status bar, and I lke the download manager in Firefox better.

IE also has too many options/settings which are kind of confusing. Although, IE 10-11 seems faster these days.

 

[Saruman]

I actually like downloading from IE way better than firefox, unless you know a way to have the option to save to external drives using FF?

I know images we can save externally, but with files, I use IE.

 

[GeekStep]

Firefox add-ons do not occupy much memory like it used to though and of course I would pick Firefox over IE because of the size. I also prefer free and open-source software to these commercialized wares.

 

[Saruman]

With the commercial browsers that are out there how would you rate their "support" versus the open source browser companies?

Is it worth it sacrificing the extra memory usage and file size for said support?

 

[froggyboy604]

Firefox has a user support forum at its official Google Groups : https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum ... rt.firefox

I haven't had very good support with Microsoft support forums, and sometimes end up just using a search engine like Google, DuckDuckGo, etc to look for a blog post with someone with a similar Windows or IE problem for an answer on how to fix it.

With Firefox running on Ubuntu Linux or Linux Mint, I had very few problems with it since Linux runs programs better than Windows, and I notice Firefox feels a lot faster on Linux Mint and Ubuntu than Windows on a slower computer with an older Intel CPU, and 1GB of RAM.

 

[jesse pitt]

Of course, Firefox It has a lot of addons and advantages. It is also very faster that any version of IE

 

[Dartz]

IE Crashes and its slow also. My vote goes to Firefox!!

 

[froggyboy604]

There is also no IE for Android, so you can't sync your bookmarks, open tabs, passwords and user nemae, and other account info like Firefox where you can sync your Firefox bookmarks, etc with your Android phone/tablet with Firefox, other computers with Firefox, etc.

Firefox is also available for most versions of Windows and Linux instead of IE forcing you to upgrade to Windows 7-8 to use IE 10, or upgrade to Vista to use IE 9.

 

[spiderman]

Firefox, my all time favorite!

 

[Atrox]

My vote goes to firefox. 🙂

 

[CM30]

Firefox. I just can't stand using Internet Explorer any more, it's way too slow and is just a worse browser in every possible way.